hayvan
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- Comment on When HR has to even ruin the company Halloween Party 1 week ago:
I love that it looks like a speech bubble.
- Comment on AWS outage reminds us why $2,449 Internet-dependent beds are a bad idea 1 week ago:
Most Zigbee devices are locked into working with proprietary gateways to the cloud. The last leg of connection being not-wifi doesn’t change that.
Matter seems like a step in a somewhat good direction for establishing open standards so devices from different vendors can be combined and more importantly, controlled from a hub of user’s choice.
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 1 week ago:
Deep Rock Galactic and especially Helldivers 2 gave me the most positive interactions with random strangers despite lack of dedicated social hubs or lobbies.
- Comment on Velma can't math. 1 week ago:
When stupid people try to make a show about smart people.
- Comment on Mom they're fighting again 2 weeks ago:
That philosopher was Plato.
- Comment on tiny tot engineering 2 weeks ago:
Real ones remember.
- Comment on tiny tot engineering 2 weeks ago:
My young colleagues (early 20s, I’m in 40s) found some real cheap beyblades in nearby Lidl, set up an arena and started fighting at breaks. They asked if we could 3d print custom parts. I’m not that interested in participating but I’m very interested in engineering the shit out of them.
- Comment on A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley 3 weeks ago:
Bad for them. Fewer ai buttons shoved to my face, higher availability of GPUs, those ain’t bad for me.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Imagine launching weather satellites and there is suddenly a whole new continental society living peacefully by intentionally avoiding rest of the world.
(I know this is absurd at several levels)
- Comment on do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last? 4 weeks ago:
It wasn’t only in Germany. It first started in Italy as Fascism, and became popular all over the place. As with many Italian inventions, Germans “improved” it and made Nazizm. But they also inspired a lot of similar racist movements, especially around Europe. Captain America was published in 1938 specifically because some comic artists worried Hitler was becoming too popular in USA.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 4 weeks ago:
When a new game costs 60 bucks, just paying for a game pass and have access to a random library seems appealing. It’s also a nice way to try and discover games I guess. I never used it.
- Comment on Anon doesn't understand streamer fans 1 month ago:
Hell yeah
- Comment on Anon doesn't understand streamer fans 1 month ago:
I think watching and developing parasocial relationships with streamers, male or female, is pretty fuckin weird anyway.
It is weird in an understanble way. Homo sapiens is a pack animal. For most of our 300k years of history, we survived by forming tribes and being connected to each other. This is why rejection sucks at any context, be it romanic or employment or friendship.
Today, we are more alone and isolated than any time in history. It’s understandable some lonely people are desperate enough to hang onto some simulacrum of connection.
- Comment on Anon asks out a friend 1 month ago:
Do you know what a greentext is?
- Comment on Anon asks out a friend 1 month ago:
I mean it’s greentext. That part is always implied.
- Comment on winter fans 2 months ago:
That’s me, give me those dark cold days I can snuggle warm blankies when I get home. Fun fact: you can always dress more when you are cold but there is a physical limit to dressing less when you’re too warm.
- Comment on Who could have predicted this? 2 months ago:
Fair, my own needs on spreadsheets were are formulas and enumerations, I can’t comment on more advanced uses.
- Comment on Who could have predicted this? 2 months ago:
I obviously don’t know her exact needs but so much can be achieved by web versions of Office and Outlook that I didn’t have issues working with MS-using clients.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 2 months ago:
So does Ubuntu, but there is a catch. Secure boot relies on signature checking, so you can manually add the signature of your OS manually to the UEFI db, but can’t do that on locked UEFI. Major Linux providers went another route, they paid Microsoft to sign a
shimbinary, which in turn can verify and boot the matching Linux kernels. Microsoft refusing to sign shims would be a rather crippling move, but they would get a massive backlash from that.